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A national competition winner for an efficient home design for the common man in the 1920s

This digitized subcollection is an interesting mix of documents and images about the winning design conceived and built in Kalamazoo by Caroline Bartlett Crane, a prominent social activist and minister in Kalamazoo’s early history. Includes …

A study of the twelfth-century Cistercian Hymnal.

In 1984, Chrysogonus Waddell sent the first volume of the Cistercian Liturgy Series, an edition and study of the twelfth-century Cistercian Hymnal, to Cistercian Publications in Kalamazoo for distribution and marketing. The fruit of many hours spent in European libraries, and on …

A journal published by Gethsemani Abbey, KY and edited by Father Chrysogonus Waddell from 1966-1999.

Founded in 1965 as a newsletter for the Liturgy Commission of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO), the journal eventually published the research of many influential scholars of monastic liturgical practice.

Featuring Soldiers' Diaries and Letters

United States Civil War Collection consists of 8 diaries from the mid 1860s by soldiers with connections to Michigan, regimental or residence and represent diverse military experiences, ranging from a musician to a prisoner of war situation. The handwritten originals have full transcriptions …

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